Registration for the III International Student Competition «Chamber of Arbitrators - 2023» is open
GRATA International, Belarus is a sponsor of the International student competition on International Trade Law and International Commercial Arbitration «Chamber of Arbitrators» for the third consecutive year.
Lizaveta Tsianiuta, Junior Associate of GRATA International, Belarus, attended the online seminar «Non-performance of the supply contract: how to recover debt, penalties, interest? » as a speaker
On June 30, 2023 «Yurist» magazine held an online seminar «Non-performance of the supply contract: how to recover debt, penalty, interest? ».
Maxim Lashkevich was a speaker on the online seminar «New requirements for leasing real estate: what to focus on since November 20, 2023».
On June 29, 2023, Maxim Lashkevich, Partner, Head of the practice Construction and Infrastructure, spoke at the online seminar «New requirements for leasing real estate: what to focus on since November 20, 2023».
18.07.2023
On July 6, 2023 GRATA International Belarus together with its partners multimodal freight forwarder RTL Alliance, consulting company ASER, CJSC «MTBank» held the second regional business seminar «Logistics, Finance, Foreign Economic Activity in 2023» in Mogilev Regional Development Agency.
Belarus has modified the conditions for regulating consumer goods prices
Since October 2022, Government Resolution No. 713, which sets out the measures to regulate prices, has been in force in Belarus (https://pravo.by/document/?guid=12551&p0=C22200713&p1=1&p5=0). Price restrictions affect producers, importers and sellers of goods on the Belarusian market. The list of regulated consumer goods includes 330 items, including food, clothes, electrical goods, cars and spare parts, construction materials.
Improvement of the regulation of the restrictions on exclusive rights to intellectual property
In January 2023, the Law allowing the parallel import of goods essential for the domestic market was adopted (https://pravo.by/document/?guid=12551&p0=H12300241). It allows suppliers to import these essential goods into Belarus without the consent of the rightsholder - a resident of the foreign country. The Law stipulates that the Belarusian Government must appoint state authorities responsible for the essential goods lists.
Belarusian legal entities with foreign shareholding are subject to state control once again
In June 2023, the Belarusian Government updated the list of legal entities, whose shareholders are unfriendly state residents and cannot alienate their stocks (shares in the authorized capital). We remind you that the list was prepared as a countermeasure to foreign sanctions imposed on Belarus within the last 3 years and the unfriendly states are specified in the Government Resolution of April 6, 2022 No. 209 (https://pravo.by/document/?guid=12551&p0=C22200209&p1=1&p5=0).
The High Tech Park restructuring started
To comply with the Edict the Belarusian Government issued a resolution dated May 24, 2023 on the establishment of the Secretariat and approval of its article of association.
Belarusian refinancing rate continues to decrease
On June 21, 2023, the Board of the National Bank of Belarus decided to decrease the refinancing rate from 9,75% to 9,5% per annum (p.a.). We remind you that in March 2023 the rate was 11% p.a. and has been decreasing monthly since.
The distance-based retail of drugs is allowed in Belarus
On May 3, 2023, the Ministry of Health of Belarus adopted Resolution No. 69, which defines the procedure for online retail of drugs. It includes not only the receipt of orders for drugs, their generation, storage and delivery to the customer but also pharmaceutical consulting to the customer